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Positive part feature to exclude everything else #6701

Open Rickthebig opened 1 week ago

Rickthebig commented 1 week ago

Is there an existing issue for this feature request?

Is your feature request related to a problem?

I'am always frustrated when... I have to put and align several negative parts in order to isolate the portion of the model that I wish to print.

Which printers will be beneficial to this feature?

All

Describe the solution you'd like

Allow to add a positive part. This means that only the intersection of this part with the current model will be considered for printing. It would be a huge simplification.

Describe alternatives you've considered

No response

Additional context

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kylek29 commented 1 week ago

I can see where that'd be very useful. As a workaround; if this is a model you made; you can create the negatives (just another model that you want to extract from the other) in the same CAD software and export them separately with the same origin point. That way you can do a simple import and set it to be negative.

Ataraxia-Mechanica commented 1 week ago

In Blender this is called Boolean Intersect if you want to search this technique up.

Rickthebig commented 1 week ago

In Blender this is called Boolean Intersect if you want to search this technique up.

Thus proving that my idea is not so awkward.

I am even surprised that this has not been implemented yet, since it would save a lot of work creating a number of negative parts around, which would be shifted if reloaded (bug?) and would need to be re-aligned...

It is so obvious, and should not overburden the developers.